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1 s » ^ • Bow It Hftppaned. cot to Uiiukin' of Uuâ€" botb ber patenw dead and goneâ€" And «U oer aiitera married off, uid none but) ber and John A-livin' all alone there io tbat loneaome ao*t o' way, And buii a blaiuu old bachelor, nOimder ew'ry day I I'd knowiKl em all from children, and their daddy from the time He Mttlud in the neighborhood, and hadn't ary a dime Er dollar, when be married, for to atart huusu- keepin' on : Bo I got to thinkin' of her-both her parsntB dead and tjone : I got to thinkiu' of her, and a-wunderin' what she tlone That all her sisten kei> a-guttin' married one by one, And ber without no ehancteâ€" ami the beet gurl of the pack- All old maid, with hsr hands, you might lay, tied behinil her back ! And mother, too, afure she died, she UHt to jeB' take on, When none of em waa left, you know, but Evar line and John, And jea' declare to goodness at the young men must bo bliue To not see what a wife they d b'iti >f they got Evaline ! her; uxy great affliction I got to tluukm' of ihe Wm tich a comfort to as, and so kind and heiijb- berlyâ€" Bbe'd come, and leave her housework, fer to he'p out Uttlo Jaue, And talk of her own mother at ahe'd nerer see a^ainâ€" JSaybe sometimes cry together â€" thoogb, fer the moat part, sbo Would have the child so riconeiled and happy- like, 'at wo Felt lonesomer 11 eT«r when shed put her bon- net on And aay abed railly half to be a-fiittiu' back to John I I got to thinkiu' of her, as 1 sayâ€"and more and more I'd think of her dependence, and the burdens 'at abe bore â€" Her parents both a-beiu' dead, and ail her siatem gone And married oil, and hex a-Uvin' there alone with John- Ton migkt say jes a-luilin' and aslaviu' out her life Fei a man at hadn't pride enough to got blase t a wifeâ€" 'IiBM aomo one married Evaline and packed her oS some day : Bo I gpt to thiniim' uf herâ€" aiid it hqipened thitaway. â€"Jaiati Wutcjnit liiley. Itonneeaee'a Moantabt 0«w (joeen. Miss Bettie Smith, of FentreaB coanty, Tenn., who waa arrested on the charge at illicit distilling, is said to be handsome and Bocomphahed, and is sapposed to have written that wild and stirring romance, "The BlaeHeaded Sapducker; or, the Rock Where the Juice Kau Ont." Colonel Harney Mathes, editor of the Memphis Ledger, says that Miss South is ondoabt edly the author of the aiory. This ia a â- tertling revelation. At one lime Colonel Mathes offered JS.OOO for the discovery of the author. When MisH Smith waa arraigned before the I'nited States Court at Nashville she conducted herself with aach grace and dignity tbat the polite old Judge, deeply impresaed, atom umI ma«i« bar k profoand tww. " Miss Smith," a»id the Judge, "to «ee yon ia thia awful predicament terioasly teaches me." " It does me, too, Judge.'' " Hoy old are you T' .. " J^itdga. yoa ahaald not 4Bk tach «i%ues- tion ; but 1 will tell you. lam two years elder than my married siater, who was mart ied before she was as old as I am. She nasbeeii married ei){bteen months, and still speaks well uf her husband. Now, how old am I '.'" " I cannot tell." " I am not to blame for your mathemati- cal inefljciency." " Why did you go into the distilling basi- aees '/" " Because I wanted to make wbiakey." " Uow long have you been a distiller ?" " Ever ainca I was 10 years old." '• 'When were you 10 years old .'" " The year my father died." •' What year was that .'" •' The year my Uncle Uenry moved to Texas." " Miss Smith, you are a woman, bat I insist tbat you shall answer my questions. Kemember, tbat if convicted of this awful charge, vou will be sent to the Peniten- tiary. What did you do with the whiskey you made?" " Sold it." "Who bought it?" " Well, Judge, it would be rather hard to tell who bought it all. Some time ago a party of gentlemen came into my neighbor- hood to hunt deer. The party not out of whiskey, and found it difficult to buy any. After a while I told a uiau if he would put his jug down on ii dollar and go away, he might, when he came back, find the jug full ofwhiskev. He did 80." " Wouli you know the man ? " " Oh, ye«, sir ; 1 recognised him in a nioment. You are the man. Judge." â€" Urkatuaw 2'rniclltr. EKMLISH 11II.UONAIBE.S. 4>me of the Largest Fortuaex £jtt«ly B«cerded In tlie Brltlah Isles. The incidence of the probate and aacoeflsion duties has become a subject of Interest, pays the London Globe. The actnal amount paid in respect of these duties for the tinancial year just ended has not been published. The succession daty for the year 188i;-87 yielded £1*14,764, and the probate duty i;4,036,4ti0. The latter, at the rate 'of 3 per cent., therefore repesented personal estate valued for probate at about £I'il,OOO,00O. Since Christmaa last four wills have been proved, pMsing personalty of more tiian £9,500,000. Sir William Miller, a Scotch merchant, Isft £l,0'.i;i,0O0 ; Lord Wolverton, a banker, of Welsh descent, £1,8-20,338 ; Mr. Hugh McCalment, an Irish merchant, £3,121,9!il ; and Baron de Btern, a German tinancier, i;3,544,',)78. One other estate exceeding a million was, it ia underetcod, passed by a will proved in the financial year just ended. In no previous year, it ia believed, have five estates paid duty on more than ten and a half millions. In twenty years the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in his budget speeoh only three estates of three millions each have paid probate duty. Fifteen other estates last year, varying in amotmt from £496,000 to £065,000, gave • total of nearly nine millions, and twenty- one, with personalty exceeding a quarter of a million and under half a million, paid duty on seven and a half millions more. It is probable that about a hundred wills were proved, disposing in each case of less than £250,000 and more than £100,000, with an aggregate of perhaps fifteen millions. The whole number of wills proven in this oonntry last year may very Ukcly have been about hity thousand. From ten of these more than a tithe of last year's pro- bate duty was obtained. Over a third of the duty was contributed by the estates of not more than 150 rich people, the average amount of whose personalty considerably CKceeded £250,000, while the average of all the other estates would be probably less than £2,000 each. The income tax returns show that in this cotmtry property is becoming more evenly distributed each year. The result of this distribution seems to be that lees wealth is accumulated than when property waa in fewer hands. The incomu of the country does not appear to be increasing at the same rate as formerly. Notwithstand- ing the windfall this year from a few great estates, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was probably right in regarding the yield from the death duties as likely to be in- elastic. The ownership of land in this oountry ia rarely now the means of accu- mulating wealth. Of the twenty fortunes exceeding half a million each which have been noticed all were made in buainess. Among the twenty-one other estates with each more than a quarter of a million per- sonalty, were only three or four of great land' owners. The desire of rich men to become owners of land is apparently de- creasing. It ia seldom now that money is left to be invested in the purchase of land. Next to the hve m^^ionaires the largest personal estate left in the last twelve iTiontha waa tliat amounting to £654,431 of Mr. Perrins, of Lea x Perrina, of Worces. ter, at whose shop, it is said, a lady on her Mr. UlaUatone, EarlSpencer iiud the Metho- dist Preacher. At a convention of Wesleyan Methodist lay preachers recently held in Northamp- ton, England, the Chairman of one of the meetings related the following incident which occurred some years since at a vil- lage throe miles from Northampton. It ia a little bit of unwritten history : " Lord Spencer and William Ewart Uladatone were out walking oneSrfnday tvening, when they beard sounds of singing coining from an old baru. After some hesitation they entered, and were so interested that they stayed to the end of the service. The ser- mon on that occasion was preached by a Methodist local brother, who was a poor, hardworking, iuduatrioua man. Service over, the right hou. gentlemen bad a con- 'versation with the preacher, and one of them told him ho had never heard the gospel preached so faithfully and well in his life before, and ho further gave him all the change he had in bis pocket." •' He Knew the Ropes. " The bulk of my fortune I wish to bequeath to my scapegrace nephew George," said the dying man. " Why, it waa only yesterday he called you an old skinllint," said the lawyer. " I'd cut the boy off " " That's all right," replied the testator. " You make out the will the wuy 1 tell you. I know enough about wills to know that if I leave him all the money he won't get a cent of it." _ Kear .\dmiral Ueneage, of the British Navy, has forbidden his oflicers to wear colored shirts tmder their coats. A QL'KKB RKDFKLLOW. The Startling NoctunuU JiUcorery Hade by a Sojourner la Texaa. I am encamped in tha deep forests on the carboniferous hills ol Young Coimty, saya a Texas letter in forett and Stream. My temporary shelter ia a small cabin of a single room, full of cratdu through which things can creep. This morning an hour before dawn a heavy storm descended upon US, and the air (;rew quite chilly. While lying in my oomfort&lile little bed listening to the howling of the wind and ponring of the rain, I felt a atrange movement in the bed. It was not the movementof an earth- quake, or of a whale, or of an elephant; yet I immediately recognized it as a movement of a very moving nature one that might involve terrible consequences. I felt it again, and it was not only in bed, but under the cover with me. Just a^t this juncture I felt something very slick and of a somewhat cold nature move against my hand. The time for action evidently bad come, and I did not deliberate what action to perform, but performed at unce. With one fell bound I vacated the bed and landed in the middle of the door with snob a thump that the cabin shook all over. In a moment my lamp was burning, and 3ei'.ting a club I approached the bed and cautioasly pulled down th« cover. There lay a snake, beautifttlly ooiled up, with his head somewhat uplifted, licking ont his tongue at me. Ha waa about four feet long. He looked at ma and I looked at him. He made no motion aa if he would run and neither did I. I thought I spied a gentle and conlldiiig expression in bis eye, as if be said : " You need not be alarmed : if you will not hurt me neither will I hurt yon. If yott will be my friend I will be yours." I tkrew my club aside. 1 perceived tbat my bed-fellow waa a buil- snake, almost precisely like the rattle- snake in markings, bai in no other respect like that monster. Ha is without fangs, withoat poison, and of a gentle, playfal and amiable nature. He grows eight or- %iht. feet long. I aaid unto bim that he aob I should be friends ; that ho might not only dwell with me in my cabin, but thkt, if be liked ha could sleep with raa in my bed. Having aaid that much I oaxefoUy spread the cover over bim and told him to sleep on. And he did so. But I did not go ba.ck to bed to him. I eat by my table and read a few chapters of St. Vaol, who, of all authors, is my favorite. Bow logical, bow forceful, bow grand and ennobling be is '. On re- turning from bruaX^t I brought one of my fellow-workmen witlf ois to show him my friend and bedfellow. When 1 drew back the cover, theru he 1^, perfectly ijuiet and content, but lickinlf' Ant bis tongue. My fellow-workman was dambfonnded. I then put the cover back again. A few moments ago my snake descendeS from the bed in a quiet way, as if entirely at home, and i^ still probably aomewh4re in the house. Ha waa probably engaged in bunting mice when the storm came up, and becoming chilled in the channad atmosphere he found .my bed pleasant and ooncludod to sleep with me â-² BKHARKABLE CASE. rertrn fron India, auu«.julkrs agaj[||tt[y chance a recipe for curry which suggested tbat for the famous sanco, and next to Mr. Ferrins' waa the estate, wortii £6^6,449, of Mr. Thomas Jesaop, of Sheffield, whogener- oualy gave back to the company whith bought his business £40.000, the amount by which the valuation of his atock and plant exceeded bis estimate. Mrs. Pemberton- Uey wood, the widow of a Liverpool banker, left £051,237 ; Mr. Charles Cave, a West India merchant and partner in the London bank of Prescott, Grote A Co., £l)13,'J00, and Mr. Uardie Earquhar, a banker in St. James' street, £544,684. Mr. Robert Campbell, one of the early settlers in New South Wales, left £017,819. Mr. George Benton, the contractor, £006,593 ; Mr. Charles Waring, £552,000 ; Mr. James Haworth, who died intestate, £5'.i3.000 ; Mr. Joshua Fielden, £503,j'.l8, and Lord Uindlip, the senior partner of .VUsupp \' Sons, £557,577. Sir Alexander Matheaon, whose personalty waa worth £643,7.59, had much landed estate, bat he was also a part owner of the Bio Tinto copper mines and the head of an old firm of China merchants. Mrs. Morrison, who left £i;i2,- 000, was the widow of Mr. â- James Morriaon, who, after serving an apprenticeahip with her father at bis merchant shop by London Bridge, became hispirtnerâ€" andhers--and in time built dp the great wholesale trade of the Fore street warehouse. The late Commodor<3 Vanderbilt is aaid to have died worth 8164,000,000, or about as much as 100 of the richest estates in England paid probate duty upon last year, Tohave made a fortimo of two, or three, or even five millions of pounds sterling in '20 or 25 years ia spoken of as not an un- common occurrence in America. Such fortunes, if, indeed, they are made at all, must, of course, be made by speculation, and not in the ordinary course of trade. There is no indication that wealth can be aojuired in this country, even on a small scale, in the way that it is said to be geoned in America. Riches, when not inherited, seem to bo slowly earned by the people whoso wills are proved in England. The estates with personalty between £260,000 and £500,000 offered for probate last year included thoaaof Mr, Chaa.Seelev, £496, iiOl; Mr. Thos. Simon Bolitho, £414,503; Mr, W. B. PhUlimore, £367,943, and Mr. R. Ber. ridgo, £312,507, who were all considerable landed proprietors, but Mr. Belitho was a Cornish banker, Mr. Berridge a partner in Meu.x brewery, whose purchase of the great estate of the Martina, of Cro' Martin, waa probably not a remunerative invest- ment, and Mr. Seeley and Mr. PhilJimoro did not, it is believed, owe their wealth chiefly to their land. Among sixteen or seventeen other eatatea of more than a quarter and less than a half a million were those of Mr. Stevens, proprietor of the b\imibi llcraUl, £287,331 ; Mr. Alexander, a bill broker, £381,071 ; Mr. Joseph May- nard, a city solicitor, £436,383 ; Mr. Synott, an Irish merchant, £25'.l,227 ; Mr. Goo. Crosfield, a Warrington soap manu. facturer, £320,462 ; Mrs. Gibbs, the widow of the well-known agent of the Peruvian Government, £408,000 ; Herr Krupp, .£273,1'25 ; Mr. Lionel Cohen, of the stock- exchange, £423,447 ; Mr. C. K. Eenesick, a ship broker, £408,000, and Mr. J. H. Smith, a banker, £388,9'28. The Mayor of Whetland, Cal., is a colored man. How %» Klli XoUa. The destmotion'^f moths is one of the Hiiiitail iiiiialiasM ailiii li nii a fnl honas keepers have to contend with, and their depredations are not to be remedied after they have once made inroads. Houses heated by furnaces are especially predis- posed to have motha, but every housekeeper must bf on the watch for them, for, from tbo time that the windows begin to be left oi>en the trouble begins. Heavy carpets do not require taking up every year unless in constant use. Take out the tacks from these, fold the carpets back, wash the door in strong aads with a tablespoonf ul of borax dissolved in them. Dash with insect pow- der or lay with tobacco leavca along the edge and retack. All motha can be kept away and the eggs destroyed by this means. Ingrain or other carpets, after shaking, are brightened by sprinkling a pound of salt over the surface and sweeping carefully and thoroughly. It is also an excellent plan to wipe off the carpet with borax water, using a thick flannel cloth wrung tightly, taking care not to wet it, but only to dampen. Open the windows and dry the carpet before replacing the fur- niture. Other woollens, including blankets and wearing apparel, must be beatca and brushed and folded smoothly. Be careful to clean every spot with ammotiia water, not too strong, and a dark woollen cloth. Tie pieces of camphor into little bundles and put one in each article. Wrap the articles in newspapers, as printers' ink ia a great preventive of moths, and sew them up in strong sheeting bags, labeled so it will not be ueceasary to open them during the summer except for use. This ia a good way for those who do not possess cedar bo.xes, and the articles need bave 00 other care if every spot is treated as directed and the garments are not left hanging in the closet too long befoie put. ting away for the season. Any one moving into a honse should see that the rooms are disinfected. No agent can guarantee that there has been no infectious disease in tha house ; he does not know anything about it. Commence at the cellar first and go through each room. This should be done before you take poaaeseiodif posaibie, but if it ia not convenient it should be done before you "et settled. An ounce of sulphur may save many a dollar of a doctor's bill. Sulphur and alcohol are the most satisfactory disin- fectants, and they posseas another ad- vantage in being inexpensive. The alcohol is only necessary to cause the sulphur to ignite quickly. The sulphur will burn without it, and if you have no alcohol take three or four lighted matches and place them on the top of the sulphur and it will soon take fire. All silver or gilt articles should be removed from tho room while the sulphur is burning, otherwise they will ba very much discolored and in aome uaaes destroyed. In houses that have furnaces matters are considerably simplilied. The sulphur can be put in the furnace, all the registers can be opened and the whole house disinfected at the same time. If tho fumes become too strong open the cold air shaft and the windows, and they will soon be dissipated. Ho Faid Him Ofl'. Young Physician (to patient) â€" What yon need ia e.xercise, sir. Yon should walk more. Patient reaching for his pocketbook How much, young man? I walked all last sight with the baby. A .Vlan to be Tried for a Murder Committed Nearly Forty Years Ago, The case of Jesse L. Graham, who is now in prison at Santa Cruz on a charge of having murdered Dencia Bennett 38 yeara ago, promises to be one of the most striking ca:jes in the criminal calen>lar of this coast. The facts are iheae : On April '22nd, 1850, Dennis Bennett was shot dead at the door of his honse at Cyante, in Branciforte (now Santa Cruz) county. Several witnesseaâ€" namely, one Uennia Connor, James Robinson and Mr. Hoyt â€" were in tbe bouse at the time and testiJied that they aaw the murder com mitted by Jesse D. Graham. Other wit ueaaesâ€" to wit, Mauaell Bennett. Jackson Bennett, Mary Bennett, Mary Ann Bennett and Julia Bennett â€" were before the grand jury and gave evidence in corroboration. On this an indictment waa found, which waa signed by William T. Wallace, then Diatrict Attorney, since Chief Justice of the State, and now Judge of Department No. Ii of the Supreme Court in this city. That Indictment ia still on file in the county clerk's office at Santa Cruz. For some reason or other Graham was never brought to trial for the murder. Here the stories diverge. A surviving relative of the murdered man saya that Graham fled, and remained in hiding for Eeveral months in the Santa Cruz mountains, where be waa supplied with food by his father ; that three years afterward he was captured in Tuolumne county, but that the cap- tors were induced to surrender bim to his father in exchange for S5,000 ; that he then escaped to Texas, where he Uvea many years ; that he finally returned to Southern California ; that he went by the name of Jones. On the other hand, frien^la of the prisoner says that he never was in hiding ; that he lived unmolested at Santa Cru;: for over SIX montha after the finding of the indictment ; that he has repeatedly visited that place since, under his own name, with- out interference from any one; that he has frequently met members of the Bennett family â€" the witnesses against him â€" and waa never denounced by them. It is notice. able that, so far as appears, the prisoner s friends do not deny that he killed Bennett, One peculiarity of the case, which seems to command more attention in Santa Croz country than it wuold du here, la that tho prisoner ih aaid to rely upon the fact that the alleged murder waa committed before California waa a State of the fnion, and tbat, therefore, he cannot be tried under ita crimmal uode. California was not admitted till September '.Hh, 1660, and Bennett was killed, u-i we saw, on April '2'2nd of that year. But California had been a territory of the United Statesâ€" though it had never had a recognized Terri- torial Governmentâ€" for three years prior to the murder, and the Territorial condi- tion carried with it the common law. A murder was as much a murder before as after the admisyion of the State, and was punishable in the aame way, by the same procedure and with the aame penalty. If Bennett killed Graham, and the fact caube proved by credible witnesaes, it is not seen how it will avail bim to show that the deed was committed before California was admitted and while it was working under the Constitution of Monterey.â€" iiun I run ciico CalL ~ Latest Seuttihh NewH. One morning recently ;:ve largo eugicB were seen flying over Lerwick. Lord Hopetoun has agreed to accept liie freedom of the ancient burgb of Queens, ferry. The sparrowa at Millport have been stealing the Rev. Mr. Walker'a pulpit bandii ctl the green and making nests of them. It ia proposed to present the Maniuik of Lome with the freedom of Aberdeen on hia visit on Juno 21st, to unveil the Wallace atatue. Lord Rosebcry has paid £2,S0O aterlini^ for the construction of a swimming bath, 10 feet long by :iU feet wide, at tho People s Palace in the East End of London. The ship's register of Paul Jones, the noted seaman and admiral of theAmerican navy, waa aold in Dumfries en the I'ith ult,, for £2 10a., the purchaser being Mr. J. J, Glover. Mias Annie Brown, who wrought tbe handsomely embroidered <iuilt presented to tbo Priiicess of Wales at Glasgow Exhibi- tion, ia a native of Dairy, and a daughter of a working blackamith. Mr. Alexander Petrio, sen., Arbroalb, died on tho 10th May. He was 84 years of age, had been upwards of 00 years a Sun- day School teacher, and waa believed to be tho oldest Sabbath School teacher in Scot- land. By the marriage of the widow of the late Mr.' Henry Ritchie Cooper Wallace, of Buabio and Cloncaird, Ayrshire, £21,000 baa fallen to the Edinburgh Koyal Infirm- ary, and £7,000 to the Koyal National Lifeboat Institution •• for the purpose of establishing a lifeboat on the Ayrshire coast, to be named the Busbie.'' Aa a memorial of laat year's Mary Queen of Scots tercentenary exhibition at Peter- borough, it ia priiposed to print one of the MSS. from Loaely there exhibited. This is an account of " The Examynacon and Death of Mary ijueen of Skottea, " signed by K. Wynkfielde, which ia of special inter- est a.-i identifyingBurghley'soorrespondent, " R. W,, " and aa differing in aome details from the common reports. THE FKIMCKSS OF WAI^;J. The Stoat Popalar Peraoiuic« In Ureat Britainâ€" Her Early Life. The Princeas of Wales is the most popu- lar personage in Great Britain. So far as the matitution of royalty in oonoemod it can be truly said of her that her life ia the most valuable in tbe kingdom, h^o long as she lives ber popularity will be euffioient to keep tho cause of royalty well protected from [iopular innovation. I have tried to . obtain from those who know the Princess of Wales well the secret of her great popu- larity. She is not a brilliant woman, she baa never written anything, ami in con- veraaticii ahe never impresses anyone with tha idea of her having any particular originality or striking force of character. In ordinary society, without the ailvantage of her position, she would make but little impression. She is excessively ladylike and reflned. She has a most marvellous beaut', which chiefly consists in regular features, a fair complexion and a perfectly aerenu and placid expression. The moat remarkable feature of her good looks ia the preservation of her youthful appearance. In the broad glare of daylight she looks to-day aa yotmg if not younger than her eldest daughter. Her figure is also slim and slight aa that of a young girl. She dresses with exquisite taste and appears to enjoy general society very much. The secret of her popular charm is said to be this ; She has tbe rare and gracious faculty of impressing people who come in contact with her in the casual meeting of a general reception or a levee with ber genuine cordiality. People who have been presented to her and who have simply seen her bow and smile, and per- hapa have heard a half dozen woraa of commonplace greeting, are the ones who are the most wildly enthusiastic over ber. Her hearing before the public constitutes ber cn.ef charm. Every one is led to believ .' that ahe is the most gracious and winning personage in the kingdom. It is this outward suggestion upon the (>art of the Princess of Wales of brilliant gracious- ness tbat has captivated and thoroughly charmed the British public. Those who know her best say that a more intimate acquaintance with her does not bear out the public estimate. She ia thoroughly refined, accom- pliahed and aelf-poasesaed, but is not inter- esting in a general convcraation. While I waa on the continent last month I heard a aumber of intereating atoriea concerning the early life of the Princeaa ui Wales. These stories are not particularly new, and 1 do not propose to allude to them except to givo the exact income of her father be- fore he was called to tbe throne of Den- mark. This prince lived in tiie most obscure poverty for a number of years, lie had an income of exactly S1.20O a vear. There were five children to be supported and educated from this beggarly sum. The young ladies of this houaehoid learned to cook, to sew and to do all kinds of house- work. They were obhged to make their own dreaaes for many yean. No members of any family so obscurely placed have risen to more brilliant poeitiona than this Danish family. The head of the family became the King of Denmark. His oldest son is, of course, the Crown Prini^c of that country. Another son is the King of ^iUfiSi^sL-BJAthceu daughters art liie Prin- ' kiess of Wales, the Cisarua of Bnasia and the Duohesa of Cumberland. â€" T. â-  '. (.'rnu- J'crd in New York florid. Oreaiies at the Opanlnic of the <ilHi>eow BzhibltiaB. The Prinoesa of Walea was inosi becom- ingly attired in the palest shade of grey : ber dreas, whieb was of alternate silk and satin stripes, wiks trimmed with pauacmen- terie of the samo delicate shade, and soft tfolda of orepe were arranged on the front of the bodice and tbo akirt ; tier grey trttas- parent tulle bonnet had a bouquet of white qowers, with pale green leaves, and she carried a small grey chinchilla mulf. The Qucbess of Abercorn's dress was of fa.vn- oolored silk, trimmed with pa^aementerie, ahd her bonnet of tulle of tbe aame shade waa ornamented with large white wings ; ihe Marchioness of Lothian wore dark green foulard, and her dark ureen bonnet bad a brown bird on one side. Lady Camp- bell of Blytbawood was in light grey, and hor grey tullo stringless bonnet was orna- mented with white flowers and a small 'feather ; Miss Campbell wore black, with cowslips in a black tulle bonnet ; the Marchioness of Broadalbane had a helio- trope dress, over which was worn a black lace dolman, trimmed with jet ami passe- menterie ; ber high bonnet of heliotrope tulle to match was trimmed with a white bow on one side. The Connteasof Kosobcry wore a black velvet and jet mantle and a red tulle bonnet ; the Uon. Elinor Hamil- iton had a dress of dark green cashmere and 'a high hat trimmed with dark green velvet, pink bows and a large bunch of pink flowers : her sister wore brown . Lady King wore a crushed strawberry satin dress, and ber bonnet of the samo shade w^s trimmed with velvet of a deeper tone and ornamented with Indian embroidery. KducHtiuB Arabian OirlH. " Educate a girl I" exclaimed a Moham- medan to Dr. Jeasup, a miaaionary among tho Araba, who waa urging him to place ons of hia daughtera in a ^jirla' achool in Tripoli. " Educate a girl! You might as well try to educate a eat I" Several ariato- cratio Mohammedan gentlemen of Beirut were induced a tow years ago to place their daughters in one of tho Protestant schools there, and one of them remarked : " Would you believe it? I heard one ol the girls read the other day, and she actually asked a question about tho construction of a noun preceded by a propoaition 1 I ne.er beard tha like of it I The things do distinguish and understand wliat they read after all!' Tho other replied : " Msshallah I Mash- allah 1 Ihe will of God be done!" A curious domeHtic complication came ont in a Brooklyn court on the applioation of an old man for the arrest of hia young wife, who had eloped with a younger and handsomer man. lireat Scotch Travellera, Among the Scotsmen connected with .\trioan discovery have been James Bruce, tho Abyssinian traveller ; Mnngo Park, the diacoverer of tho Niger ; Colonel Jamen Augustus Grant, the discoverer (with 'Speke) of tbo Victoria Nyanza ; Joseph Thomson and Keith Johnston ; and, the greatest of all .Vfrican travellers. Dr. Liv- ingston, .who, between I'^IO and 1S73, dis- covered the great Lakea Nyassa, Tangany- ika, Bangweolo and tho Lualaba (Upper Congo). Dr. Kobei't Motfat, L.ivingatone's tather-inlaw, also deserves mention in tho same honorable field of missionary enter- prise. Ho Was a Poor Manager, " We must curtail expenses,' aaid the husband to his awect wife. " Indeed, and I don't see how anybody could be more saving than I am. We've got a family of four of our own and two servants, and yet I manage to get along, my dreas bills and all, with only a little over 8200 a month." " And I get a salary of 5100 a month." " Well, yon must get them to raise your salary. You have the least management about you of aay person I ever aaw. Oh, If I only were a man !" A recentiv pobliahed book onetiqaette aaya ; " Endeavor to select your guest with a sense of fitness." That is. do not invite a fat man to a slim iinDer.â€" Hotel Mail.